The Wabash Railroad
in Southern Ontario, circa 1951

ABOUT MY RAILROAD...

Until the Autumn of 2008 I was building a layout based on the Canadian National Railway’s branch line hub in Palmerston, Ontario. Then, I had the opportunity to visit Bill Darnaby’s well-known HO scale model railroad, The Maumee Route. The experience had a profound effect on me and caused me to rethink everything I was attempting to do in my train room. After some careful thinking about options for the space, I settled upon modeling something that was in my own backyard. The Wabash Railroad had a significant operation across Southern Ontario that just begs to be modeled. The Buffalo Division was primarily a single-track bridge line established to reduce shipping times between Buffalo, New York, and Detroit, Michigan.

I am building a double-decked layout featuring selected towns and signature scenes on the Wabash Railroad’s 240-mile Buffalo Division. My layout models the segment between Aylmer and Cayuga, Ontario. This 60-mile stretch of the Wabash includes a number of online customers typical of small-town Ontario, as well as a section of the mainline shared with the Canadian National Railways’s Hagersville Sub. Since I am modeling 1951 it will be neat to see the little CNR 2-6-0s sharing the rails with the paired F7A units used on the Wabash Red Ball freights. I’ll be posting regular updates and photos of my progress on this blog.

Well I'm glad that's done!

March 8th, 2018

No, Metra hasn't come to St Thomas.I've posed these 6 commuter coaches on the Kettle Creek bridge just for fun.These are Island Model Works kits, and I can't say I had a lot of fun building these.no instructions, no photos, of the model or prototype. I had trouble finding images on line of these cars, so I knew what I was aiming for.Rather disappointed in that regard.On the upside, I finally got to use Alcad metal paint, and I'm very pleased with that product.Now onto other projects.Like contemplating whether or not to consider a whole new layout!Stay tuned on that one!